2 volumes (855 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates) : 22 cm

"Library edition"--BAL

Includes index

V.1. Mark Twain : a biographical summary -- I: Early letters, 1853 : New York and Philadelphia -- II: Letters 1856-61 : Keokuk and the river ; End of piloting -- III: Letters 181-62 : On the frontier ; Mining adventures ; Journalistic beginnings -- IV: Letters 1862-64 : "Mark Twain" ; Comstock journalism ; Artemus Ward -- V: Letters 1864-66 : San Francisco and Hawaii -- VI: Letters 1866-67 : The lecturer ; Success on the coast ; In New York ; The great ocean excursion -- VII: Letters 1867 : The traveler ; The voyage of the "Quaker City" -- VIII: Letters 1867-68 : Washington and San Francisco ; The proposed book of travel ; A new lecture -- IX: Letters 1868-70 : Courtship, and "The innocents abroad" -- X: Letters 1870-71 : Mark Twain in Buffalo ; Marriage ; The Buffalo Express ; "Memoranda" ; Lectures ; A new book -- XI: Letters 1871-72 : Removal to Hartford ; A lecture tour -- "Roughing it" -- First letter to Howells -- XII: Letters 1872-73 : Mark Twain in England ; London honors ; Acquaintance with Dr. John Brown ; A lecture triumph ; "The Gilded Age" -- XIII: Letters 1874 : Hartford and Elmira ; A new study ; Beginning "Tom Sawyer" ; The Sellers play -- XIV: Letters 1874 : Mississippi chapters ; Visits to Boston ; A joke on Aldrich -- XV: Letters from Hartford, 1875 : Much correspondence with Howells -- XVI: Letters 1876, chiefly to W.D. Howells : Literature and politics ; Planning a play with Bret Harte -- XVII: Letters 1877 : To Bermuda with Twichell ; Proposition to Th. Nast ; The Whittier dinner -- XVIII: Letters from Europe, 1878-78 : Tramping with Twichell ; Writing a new travel book ; Life in Munich -- XIX: Letters 1879 : Return to America ; The great Grant reunion -- XX: Letters of 1880, chiefly to Howells : "The prince and the pauper" ; Mark Twain Mugwump Society -- XXI: Letters, 1882, to Howells and others : Assisting a young sculptor ; Literary plans -- XXII: Letters, 1882, mainly to Howells : Wasted fury ; Old scenes revisited ; The Mississippi book -- XXIII: Letters, 1883, to Howells and others : A guest of the Marquis of Lorne ; The history game ; A play by Howells and Mark Twain

V.2. XXIV: Letters, 1884, to Howells and others : Cable's great April Fool ; "Huck Finn" in press ; Mark Twain for Cleveland ; Clemens and Cable -- XXV: The great year of 1885 : Clemens and Cable ; Publication of "Huck Finn" ; The Grant memoirs ; Mark Twain at fifty -- XXVI: Letters, 1886-87 : Jane Clemens's romance ; Unmailed letters, etc. -- XXVII: Miscellaneous letters of 1887 : Literary articles ; Peaceful days at the farm ; Favorite reading ; Apology to Mrs. Cleveland, etc. -- XXVIII: Letters, 1888 : A Yale degree ; Work on "The Yankee" ; On interviewing, etc. -- XXIX: Letters, 1889 : The machine ; Death of Mr. Crane ; Conclusion of "The Yankee" -- XXX: Letters, 1890 : Chiefly to Jos. T. Goodman ; The great machine enterprise -- XXXI: Letters, 1891, to Howells, Mrs. Clemens, and others : Return to literature ; "American claimant" ; Leaving Hartford ; Europe ; Down the Rhone -- XXXII: Letters, 1892, chiefly to Mr. Hall and Mrs. Crane : In Berlin, Mentone, Bad-Nauheim, Florence -- XXXIII: Letters, 1893, to Mr. Hall, Mrs. Clemens, and others : Florence ; Business troubles ; "Pudd'nhead Wilson" ; "Joan of Arc" ; At the players, New York -- XXXIV: Letters, 1894 : A winter in New York ; Business failure ; End of the machine -- XXXV: Letters, 1895-96, to H.H. Rogers and others : Finishing "Joan of Arc" ; The trip around the world ; Death of Susy Clemens -- XXXVI: Letters, 1897 : London, Switzerland, Vienna -- XXXVII: Letters, 1898, to Howells and Twichell : Life in Vienna ; Payment of the debts ; Assassination of the Empress -- XXXVIII: Letters, 1899, to Howells and others : Vienna ; -- The last day at Stormfield / by Bliss Carman

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